Donations pouring in!

I am so grateful and humbled by all of our support from our family and friends. We are so truly blessed to have so many wonderful people in our lives! We have so many donations for the silent auction coming in. I hope we are as lucky when it comes time for bidding on these items. I bet we have over a hundred auction items right now. We have an authentic football signed by Walter Payton! Wooo HOOOO! That is soooo cool! We have pizza for a year, Bears tickets, Iowa tickets, gift cards! I hope everyone can come to our fun event! I can't wait. I am already stressing about what Madi is going to wear! We went to Morgan's school's PTA meeting tonight and they are donating money to Madi. I feel so lucky and guilty at the same time for the wonderful people and organizations that want to help us. Madi is one loved and prayed for little girl. I really think that is why God is granting us the miracle of the little walking that Madi is doing. I can't wait for Sharon to see her tomorrow! All the girls are doing great! They are adjusting to school better now. Molly started preschool today and boy was she cute! She wanted Madi's hair like hers today, in pigtails. They were adoreable!

Miracles do happen!

Well I hope everyone is in for some exciting news! Madi is a living miracle as far as I'm concerned! Her daddy helped miracles come true! Tom invented some parallel bars out of PVC pipes. They sit about a foot or so off the ground. They are about 5 feet long. We place Madi in between the two bars and she puts most of her weight in her hands and Madi can walk from one end to the other. It is something I didn't think I would ever see! I still can't believe it! She is VERY slow but she does it completely by herself. We have had water therapy and physical therapy this week. At her PT yesterday the therapist got her a reverse walker with wheels and Sharon supported her hips a little but Madi took 3-5 steps with that. The therapist,Sharon, said, " This is every therapist's dream!" Oh believe me, beyond my dreams! I can't stop thanking God. I told Madi to thank God for her miracle tonight and she looked up to heaven and said "Thank you God!" I swear she did! Molly likes to do tricks on the new bars. Tom even painted them pink and purple. As soon as I can figure out how to upload pictures I will put a picture of her walking on this website!
Morgan has started first grade! She is enjoying it and doing very well. She is very smart and a very good reader! We have all had a rough time adjusting to the new school year. I hope things can improve over the next week! Molly starts school at St. John Vianney next week. I am sad I won't get to go her first day, but Daddy will be taking her. They both had tumbling tonight. Molly loved every bit of it! She does flip flops with the teachers and thinks she is soooo cool! Morgan has mastered her flip flop very nicely on the tumble trak! She has almost got her round off flip flop down. Tonight she started working on back tucks! Pretty amazing! Please continue to pray for our little miracle Madi. All of your prayers are working. She is living proof! I hope to have pics up ASAP. Talk to all of you soon! God Bless!

Madi's new trick!

Well I have been trying to keep this blog updated but my computer has been giving me fits. We have been blessed with many prayers that seem to be working for Madi right now. She continues to amaze us everyday! She has a new trick that I never expected her to do. My mom bought her this cute little pink chair that sits close to the ground. We have been working with her on getting in and out of the chair in hopes that she can do this herself. Well on Saturday morning she showed Tom what she has really been up to. She pulled herself to a stand. She puts her little hands on the arms of the chair, gets her legs out behind her, then slowly moves them in step by step. She has done this many times now and even gets fancy and lets go with one hand. We all clap and give her praise. She smiles sooooo big and is so proud of herself. She can stand there for 3-5 minutes! I can't wait to show our therapist! She will be just as excited as we are. We know that all of these little miracles are because of so many prayers! Please continue to keep Madison in your prayers and our spunky little Madi will continue to shock us all!